7. Blue

This album is probably not one of the best albums in the world but because this is my list of my favourites I put it here. This album will definitely always be one of the most important albums in my life.

Last July I spent couple of days in one beautiful white house by the river. My life was kind of mess and world seemed to be very ugly and sad place. One of my friends knew one old woman who was living alone in Christiania, Kopenhagen in this beautiful house. This woman was away for a while but she liked to have people visiting in her home while she wasn't there herself. My friend had promised to go and live there couple of days and when she met me she was convinced that I should come there with her. She said that I would love the house. And well... I did.

I loved almost everything in it. In general I love Christiania, which is by the way a lot more than only those drug sellers. I love the trees and the river and all those different weird houses and weird people. And I really loved this one house where my firend invited me.

At morning my friend said that she had to go and she left me there all by myself. I drank tens of cups of tea. I walked around that white house which was full of different small women figures and beautiful stones and chrystals. I did some yoga and I ate my breakfast out in the garden by the river. One beautiful wise white cat came to see me and together we sat there and listened the birds and the summer. I wrote my diary and I cried and I laughed with the cat. I talked with birds and spiders and I was thinking someone I had just met the day before. That house was the most beautiful I had ever seen and it was only for me on that day. I never met this old woman who was living there but I got pretty good picture what kind of new age hippy she was. Somehow I felt very safe when I realised that I could also live that kind of life when I'm old if I want to. I realised that there are so many things in this world that I haven't seen yet, so many people. I realised that there is so much peace in this world, so much beauty just waiting for me. That house was taking care of me. That house healed me.

And right there in that house I listened Joni Mitchell's album "Blue". I cried when I realised that I had to go back to Finland and I knew exactly what Joni was talking about when she sang: "Oh you know it sure is hard to leave here, but it's really not my home". When I came back to Finland the first thing was to buy this album and everytime I listen it I remember that peaceful day in that peaceful house with a cat. I remember how I realised that I really want to live a little longer and one day I want to become a wise old woman myself.

A case of you

Just before our love got lost you said
I am as constant as a northern star
And I said, constant in the darkness
Wheres that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue tv-screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh Canada
And your face sketched on it twice

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
And I would still be on my feet
Oh I'd still be on my feet

Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
I remember that time that you told me, you said
Love is touching souls
Surely you touched mine
Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time

Oh you are in my blood like holy wine
And you taste so bitter but you taste so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you
I could drink a case of you darling
Still I'd be on my feet
And still be on my feet

I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours
She knew your life
She knew your devils and your deeds
And she said
Color go to him, stay with him if you can
Oh but be prepared to bleed
Oh but you are in my blood you're my holy wine
Oh and you taste so bitter, bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
Still I'd be on my feet
I'd still be on my feet